News

On December 6, 2017, Avery Blank will speak on the topic of "What does an organization look like?" She is joined by Karin Klein, Founding Partner of Bloomberg Beta; Michael Lopez, Executive Director of People Advisory Services at EY; and John Bunch, Advisor to the CEO at Zappos.com.

The B Team is a global initiative co-founded by Sir Richard Branson. The B Team was incubated by Virgin Unite and brings together a group of leaders from business, civil society, and government to catalyze a better way of doing business, that prioritizes the wellbeing of people and the planet.

Avery Blank speaks to The Quorum Initiative in Washington, D.C. on the millennial strategy for doing better business - how companies can leverage the strengths of the next generation of leaders and capture business opportunities.

The Women in Law Hackathon, a Diversity Lab initiative and for which I was an Advisor, is featured in The B Team's collection of business experiments that reinforce the benefits of a 100% human workplace.

Scholars are a diverse group of leaders from around the world nominated and selected for their work, accomplishments, and ability to transform ideas into action.

The Aspen Ideas Festival is the nation's premier gathering place for leaders from around the globe and across disciplines to engage in deep and inquisitive discussion of the ideas and issues that both shape our lives and challenge our times. Some 350 presenters, 200 session, and 3,000 attendees comprise the annual Festival, launched in 2005 in Aspen, Colorado.

The mission of the Festival is to create a stimulating and invigorating convocation that links some of the foremost thinkers in the world today with civically-minded leaders in business, the arts, politics, sciences, humanities, and philanthropy who will share ideas, raise challenging questions, and inspire thought to action.

The Aspen Institute is an international, non-partisan think tank. Founded in 1950, the Aspen Institute promotes the pursuit of common ground and deeper understanding in a nonpartisan and nonidealogical setting. The Institute is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and has a campus in Aspen, Colorado.

Avery Blank speaks at the 2017 Propelify Innovation Festival along with speakers like Arianna Huffington. Over 8,000 attendees are expected. She sits down with Chief Heart Officer at Vayner Media, Claude Silver, to talk Experience vs. Hustle, how to get and be successful at the job you weren't originally trained for.

Avery Blank publishes with Harvard Law School Executive Education Director and Professor Scott Westfahl an article for the National Association of Legal Placement's PD Quarterly. A baby boomer and a millennial offer specific steps for moving from a misunderstanding of millennials to leveraging the incredible talents of the next generation of legal leaders.

Avery Blank is consulting with the Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas on the biannual, invitation-only event in Austin, TX to include, as speakers, activist Gloria Steinem, Senior Advisor to President Obama Valerie Jarrett, journalist Tina Brown, former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe, ABA President Linda Klein, and former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer.

The team Avery Blank advised won second place in the Women in Law Hackathon sponsored by Bloomberg Law and Stanford Law. Her team donated $7,500 to the Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas School of Law.

Avery Blank speaks at Power Shift Forum, a meeting on women's leadership co-hosted by the University of Oxford, Said Business School and Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. She speaks on engendering policy change and is joined by Laura Cox-Kaplan of PwC, Brigid Schulte of New America, and Courtney Emerson of All In Together.